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The Church-Turing Thesis
Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia.

Alan Mathison Turing
Undergraduate biographical essay by John M. Kowalik.

Alan Turing
Biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

Turing Digital Archive
Digital archive of items relating to Alan Turing.

Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954)
British mathematician, cryptographer, and one of the key inventors of the modern computer. After his profound contributions to helping win World War II, he was persecuted for his homosexuality by his own government, and driven to suicide. Maintained by Turing biographer Andrew Hodges: extensive resources and links, online versions of several long essays on Turing.

Alan Turing
Biographical entry in the FOLDOC.

Turing Machine
Article on Turing Machines from the Stanford Encyclopedia.

Alan Turing Archive
Archive and historical records pertaining to the work of computing pioneer Alan Turing.

On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Turing's paper which discusses the halting problem in the context of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. HTML.

Wired Archive: Alan Turing
Stories involving Turing.


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